Quotes About Artistry

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

I think that the first part of the art is making the art, but when art really becomes art is when it belongs to somebody else.

I try to conceal art with art.

What are we singers but the silver-voiced messengers of the poet and the musician?

When I was a kid, a book I read advised young artist to be themselves. That decided it for me. I was a corny kind of guy, so I went in for corn.

Art has always been aware of itself as art.

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.

Acting is the ability to keep an audience from coughing.

If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.

Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.

Sometimes you learn about the personality of your favorite artist, and you like their art a little less, because it doesn't jibe with what you had envisioned.

All great art is a form of complaint

It's kind of an art, going out and performing. I'd like fans to remember me as a guy who would go out and entertain them, give them quality matches, and not just the same old garbage every week.

Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.

There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.

Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.

The highs, the lows, the peaks, the valleys, whatever, it's all going to go into the art, whether I'm singing or acting or whatever.

Art does not copy nature - it suggests it.

Creativity is an act of defiance.

Fashion is every woman's language, and every woman's tool. Fashion is anatomy for me, creating your second skin is one of the most intimate art forms I can think of.

Killing with the point lacks artistry, but don't let that hold your hand when the opening presents itself.

Art matures. It is the formal elaboration of activity, complete in its own pattern. It is a cosmos of its own.

I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music.

I think an artist is anybody who does something well, like if you cook well.